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LADY ANNE GRANARD.
of nature that a predilection in favour of their own early times should be deeply implanted in the human breast; for, when that time has arrived in which it is truly said, "the soul hath no pleasure," it is well and wise to look back to years in which there certainly was some; though, even in that particular, the most fortunate might say—
"That distance lends enchantment to the view."
